Kinda difficult to get bird pics when you aren't shooting bird feeders...

While I was putting up barbed wire over the last coupla days, I was seeing truckloads of birds... everytime I walked past the garden... Of course.... no camera handy... really woulda needed to shoot action shots... can't get birds on the wing with single pics.... and they rarely pose on posts....

Here's a pic of the fence cutting through a nice thicket of blackberry bushes mixed up with wisteria... Guess which one I'd wish gone?

Hint... it's the invasive wisteria.... the blackberry actually has uses... While I rarely see berries... it's so dry... they wither up on the vine.... The briars make good habitat for the birds... They're also medicinal...

Here's a deer stand right on the property line... they're who the fence is for (poachers & thieves).

I spoke to the sheriff's deputies... Hunting stand on the property line... nothing I can do...

Seems like common sense they'd cut a path through the trees on the property that they're renting... put the stand out of eyesight.... at the very least...

About Me

Gardens in the sand is an exploration of xeriscape gardening.
With much of the state declared a disaster area due to the drought of 2011, dryland natives assume an ever greater role in an unwatered sandhill garden.